I'm trying to learn the 196 new jouyou kanji but I can't seem to figure out which forms are supposed to be used. I've been looking at http://www.kanken.or.jp/teido/pdf/national_list.pdf (last two pages) and http://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/pd...ou_h22.pdf (page 9-10), but unfortunately my reading ability is nowhere close enough to make out what is being said.

My question is: Are we, according to the Japanese government, "supposed" to use (on the last 2 pages of http://www.kanken.or.jp/teido/pdf/national_list.pdf) the form that is NOT in brackets, and when we write the new jouyou kanji, are we supposed to write them in the old form (like two dots for the road radical, 頬 written like 夾, 僅 with 廿 instead of the grass radical on top), or write them in the new form (but use the old form electronically?)?

Thank you!

Seren

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=9712

warakawa Wrote:http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=9712

The thread is somewhat ambiguous. I'm interpreting that it says to use the one NOT in the bracket (i.e. the older forms) for the official jouyou kanji. Is that correct? Also I'm still not sure which handwritten form is preferred.

Edit: (Thank you for pointing out the thread to me!)

for the official kanken test, no one here is really sure. Because no one here has done and passed the kanken 2kyu test yet, not that I'm aware anyway.

I am leaning towards the one in the bracket.

Honestly I've tried to read the documents and I don't have a clue; I can't make any sense of the parts that are talking about the writing of the characters. It doesn't really matter that much anyway.

Laug91's comment at the end is all you need to know. The ones without the brackets are the "correct" versions, but either will be accepted.